This Friday is the last of my summer seminars. On August 27, I am presenting on plan caching, plan reuse and recompile and plan cache metadata. This is one of my favorite topics to talk about, because a lot of the information is not very widely known, and you can have a tremendous performance impact by making sure when plans are reused when that ...

  The editing for Lesson 1 is done and the production run of my DVD has started. We're expecting shipping to start in about 2 weeks. In addition, we've extended the pre-order price for another 5 days, so any orders that come in before Valentine's Day will get the special reduced price. Because this is taking a bit longer than we hoped, we ...